A cash injection to support the arts during the Covid-19 crisis will see individuals and organisations in Kent receive emergency funding.

In all more almost £2.1 million will be distributed to support creative endeavours in the county as artists and groups - including some of our biggest venues - struggle with the impact of coronavirus.

The support package, announced today by Arts Council England, will see 182 individuals share a total of £418,627, while 78 independent organisations will receive funds totalling £1.68 million.

Last week we reported that bosses from the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury say it needs financial support order to help it recover. It will receive £34,468 from this latest intervention.

Other organisations being backed by the newly-announced funding include Maidstone Museums, the Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable, and Folkestone Fringe.

Hedley Swain, area director for the south east at Arts Council England, said: "Our sector is in unprecedented times and I am very pleased that we have been able to award so many grants in Kent and beyond in such a short timeframe.

"We’re extremely grateful to our partners for helping us to get this critical funding to artists, creative practitioners, arts organisations, museums and libraries - who use their creativity to benefit communities in villages, towns and cities across the country."

The Arts Council’s Emergency Response Package is designed to help reduce the immediate pressure faced by the creative sector this summer.

In all 7,484 grants totalling £17.1 million will be awarded to individual artists and creative groups across the country.

Almost 90% of the budget for this emergency response funding came from the National Lottery.

The full list of grants awarded to organisations in Kent

• ]performance s p a c e [ - £38,174
• 51zero - £15,000
• 6FootStories Ltd - £34,908
• Acá Theatre - £18,929
• Acrojou - £35,000
• AE - £35,000
• Animate Arts Company - £22,833
• Bon Volks CIC - £12,570
• Bright Shadow - £13,988
• Broadstairs Folk Week - £34,835
• Chiddingstone Castle - £34,964
• Circo Rum Ba Ba - £34,441
• Crate Studios & Project Space - £6,926
• CSP in the Park - £27,522
• Custom Folkestone CIC - £18,500
• DancingStrong - £5,290
• Deal Music and Arts Limited - £32,644
• Dizzy O'Dare - £14,980
• DOVER ARTS DEVELOPMENT - £33,484
• Fat Lady Opera CIC - £14,980
• Folkestone Fringe - £35,000
• Folkestone Puppets CIC - £14,660
• FrancisKnight Ltd - £9,950
• GDND Community - £12,000
• HOP Projects - £34,766
• Horsebridge Arts Centre - £35,000
• Icon Theatre - £28,000
• Inspiration Creative C.I.C. - £22,481
• Kent Creative - £15,989
• Living Words - £26,850
• Loop Dance Company - £7,343
• Looping the Loop - £16,317
• LV21 Ltd - £20,200
• Lyrici Arts - £25,842
• Maidstone Museums - £22,500
• Margate Arts Club - £9,500
• Margate Festival CIC - £35,000
• Margate Films - £34,401
• Moochdesign Ltd - £10,195
• Moving Memory Dance Theatre - £21,394
• Music for Change - £20,000
• MUSIC@MALLING - £17,017
• Musical Walkabout CIC - £8,568
• Northdown Studios - £9,500
• Open Heart Productions - £29,200
• Outdoor Studios CIC - £15,500
• Positive View Foundation - £16,837
• POW! Thanet - £24,320
• Project MotorHouse - £12,973
• Ramsgate Music Hall - £13,535
• Resort Studios - £30,430
• Revelation - St Marys Arts Trust - £15,658
• Round in Circles - £18,100
• Screaming Alley CIC - £30,000
• Screen South - £35,000
• Shepway Spectrum Arts - £8,000
• ShivaNova - £31,600
• Smugglers Events ltd - £26,783
• SPACER - £16,522
• SparkedEcho - £21,909
• Square Pegs - £15,000
• Strange Cargo - £35,000
• Strangeface - £8,865
• Strangelove Festival - £12,000
• Stretch - £18,000
• Sun Pier House CIC - £35,000
• Thanet Writers - £6,177
• The Lighthouse - £14,725
• The Margate Bookie - £8,758
• The Margate School Ltd - £35,000
• The Marlowe Theatre - £34,468
• Tom Thumbb Theatre - £20,000
• Translating Nature - £26,000
• Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre - £35,000
• Well Projects - £14,143
• Westcoast Kent Community Interest Company - £13,520
• What's Coming out of the Box - £10,146
• Whitstable Community Museum and Gallery - £18,000

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